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The Three-Body Problem (Chinese: 三体; lit. 'three body') is a story by Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin, the first novel in the Remembrance of Earth's...

Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of children's gamebooks where each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming...

Persuasion is the last novel completed by the English author Jane Austen. It was published on 20 December 1817, along with Northanger Abbey, six months...

Alison Weir (née Matthews) is a British author and public historian. She primarily writes about the history of English royal women and families, in the...

Colleen Margaretta McCullough AO (/məˈkʌlə/; married name Robinson, previously Ion-Robinson; 1 June 1937 – 29 January 2015) was an Australian author known...

The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (officially titled The Concise Oxford Dictionary until 2002, and widely abbreviated COD or COED) is one of the best-known...

Farewell, My Lovely is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1940, the second novel he wrote featuring the Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe....

"The Murderer" (1953) is a short story by Ray Bradbury, published in his collection The Golden Apples of the Sun. The scene is set in an unspecified future...

"To Helen" is the first of two poems to carry that name written by Edgar Allan Poe. The 15-line poem was written in honor of Jane Stanard, the mother of...

Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils is a wuxia novel by Jin Yong (Louis Cha). It was first serialised concurrently from 3 September 1963 to 27 May 1966 in the newspapers...

The Autumn of the Patriarch (original Spanish title: El otoño del patriarca) is a 1975 novel by Gabriel García Márquez. A "poem on the solitude of power"...

"Wang Liulang" (Chinese: 王六郎; pinyin: Wáng Liùláng), also translated as "Sixth Brother Wang", is a short story by Pu Songling first published in Strange...

Liza Crihfield Dalby (born 1950) is an American anthropologist and novelist specializing in Japanese culture. For her graduate studies, Dalby studied and...

Image is a 2002 novel by Mel Odom, based on the U.S. television series Angel. Cordelia Chase has a vision of a child being attacked by a squidlike demon...

The American Way of Death is an exposé of abuses in the funeral home industry in the United States, written by Jessica Mitford and published in 1963. An...

The Wandering Fire is a 1986 novel by Canadian fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay and the second novel of The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy. It follows The Summer...

Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama is a book by American journalist Bill O'Reilly, published in 2010. The premise of Pinheads &...

Evelyn Beatrice Sainte Croix Fleming, née Rose, known as Eve Fleming (10 January 1885 – 27 July 1964), was an English socialite known for her flamboyant...

The Rutshire Chronicles is a series of romantic novels by Jilly Cooper. The stories tell tales of mainly British upper-class families, as well as the show-jumping...

Song in the Clouds, also known as Yun Zhongge (Chinese: 雲中歌), is a novel by Tong Hua. It was published in 2007 by Writers Publishing House (作家出版社). It...